News Media Kit

Welcome reporters, music critics and photographers to the 2008 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival -- celebrating 21 years of blues, community and fighting hunger ... because no one should be hungry.

From its modest beginnings in 1988, the Waterfront Blues Festival has grown in size and reputation to be the largest blues festival West of the Mississippi and the second-largest blues festival in the United States.

We’ve gathered a wealth of resources, photographs and background information to help you with stories, photographs and interviews.

Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival is a benefit for Oregon Food Bank. All admission donations help Oregon Food Bank’s work to eliminate hunger and its root causes. Our sponsors make the festival possible.

Note: We're in the process of creating this year's high-resolution downloadable photo gallery for media.  We expect it to be up in April.

• Media procedures and contacts before the festival and on site and how to get a media pass.
• Latest news releases
• News archive
• High-resolution photo gallery for news media (please register)
• Performance schedule
• Artist bios
• News tips: Photo opportunities and story ideas
• Festival Fast Facts
• About Oregon Food Bank
• About hunger in Oregon
• About the Waterfront Blues Festival
• Festival Essentials
• For festival updates, sign up for E-mail News

Contacts:

• Jean Kempe-Ware (Jkempe-ware@oregonfoodbank.org)
• Peter Dammann (damray@europa.com)